Beyond the basement

Beyond the Basement podcast is the playground of Chris Kenworthy - an improviser, facilitator and coach, who’s exploring a broader range of what it is to be human.

Improv Comedy Education Self-Improvement

Update frequency: every 3 days
Average duration: 18 minutes
Episodes: 270
Years Active: 2020 - 2025

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Three insights on being your true self

Join me for a coffee walk, reflecting on three big insights to come out of Saturday's Undefended Improv workshop in Leeds. We explore tricky conversations, why everyone is waiting for everyone else t…

00:31:10 | Thu 16 May 2024

How to get what you want from life if you're a perfectionist

Chris has another rant about goals and a possible antidote to find your way through life with more ease, fun and fluidity.

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00:10:01 | Wed 15 May 2024

Unlock your creative potential: live at TNM Leeds 07/05

In this live recording, I explore who your inner child is, how it relates to creativity, and how to nurture yours so life's more joyful. Recorded live at The New Mondays creative network event in Lee…

00:21:40 | Wed 15 May 2024

Lead with love & humility: how to bring a thing into the world and put yourself out there

Leeds improv Co-Lab community is 1 year old. Here's 3 lessons I've learned (hard won) about taking risks, and turning an idea or hope into a real-life event.

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00:21:31 | Thu 09 May 2024

How to unlock creative potential: bringing out your inner child through play

Tomorrow at The New Monday Leeds, we'll be exploring how to help your inner child go nuts, creatively, by tapping into your innate playfulness. I'll do this through the lens of improv, during a short…

00:21:52 | Mon 06 May 2024

Given time, stuff changes

Welcome to a new segment: BtB nightz... Where Chris tries to make sense of bedtime philosophy. This one's about the nature of change, its inevitability and how it comes to our rescue.

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00:08:23 | Fri 03 May 2024

Allowing for the possibility of imperfection

Lessons from the dancefloor in what happens when we quieten the mind and let the body do the talking, or more accurately, listening. This one is all about how old habits show up in new ways.

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00:19:01 | Fri 03 May 2024

Choose nonviolence, fun & mischief on Mondays

An odd thing happened recently. I realised I actually quite like Mondays these days. If you're anything like me, the start to the week often loons heavy with foreboding and an urgency to resume the g…

00:14:16 | Tue 30 Apr 2024

Why all that matters is you, me, in the here-and-now - Improv Dairies

It's been a while, but I've just returned from a super workshop in Lancaster where I bumped into myself again and learned more vital and pressing lessons in what it means to be human.

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00:16:36 | Mon 29 Apr 2024

Your needs and getting them met

After mind-reading, expressing needs and getting them met (or not) is probably the single biggest cause of relationship turmoil. Here's an exploration of honouring self and other, a practice from Aut…

00:16:19 | Sat 27 Apr 2024

Authentic Relating lands in Leeds. But what is it?

This Friday (26th April) sees the first, regular, Authentic Relating workshop in Leeds. Come for human kindness, connection and deeper-than-usual conversation. Here I'll give you a flavour of what to…

00:19:18 | Thu 25 Apr 2024

What happens when you actually unplug from the day-to-day rush

I took a WHOLE week off. I know, what a luxury. Before, during and after that I noticed the effect disconnecting from work can have on the body and mind. Here's what I found, plus invitations on how …

00:18:04 | Tue 23 Apr 2024

Why I stopped giving advice (and you should too)

Yes the irony hasn't escaped me in the title and nature of this episode. This one's all about how to better motivate, inspire and empower someone when they come at you with a problem or expressing di…

00:12:52 | Wed 17 Apr 2024

Welcome everything, reveal your experience

These two are core practices from authentic relating that really help me navigate life's challenges. And life dealt me a sizable one recently. So I took that as an invite to practice what I preach...…

00:16:07 | Fri 12 Apr 2024

Undefended discoveries

Last Saturday a bunch of improvisers explored what it's like to welcome and reveal your inner world, in a warm and fuzzy workshop I hosted called Undefended Improv. Here's an exploration, insights an…

00:29:30 | Mon 08 Apr 2024

How would life be with a bit more mischief?

This word keeps popping up in life recently. At a session planning Leeds festival of play, in improv and from feedback I receive about my vibe. Here's an exploration of what it might be, and how I su…

00:21:53 | Thu 04 Apr 2024

Ever noticed this sneaky perfectionism?

Maybe you take your high standards and expectations for granted. There's nothing wrong with having them, but they can leave you feeling bruised and tender, if you're relentlessly striving and pushing…

00:10:27 | Wed 03 Apr 2024

How to cope with being antagonised

We've been exploring finding your calm, when people piss you off, upset you or otherwise knock you off-balance. I'm doing some embodiment training in Somerset, here's some helpful techniques I've bee…

00:16:35 | Fri 29 Mar 2024

When you care just enough to stay unhappy

A micro reflection on bringing about stuff you really care about, or not.

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00:10:10 | Wed 27 Mar 2024

What to expect from 'Undefended Improv' workshop this April

A quick walkthrough of the journey into more rewarding, heartfelt and blissful improv that I'll be taking people on next month. I explain some thinking behind the workshop, what's in store and how it…

00:22:02 | Fri 22 Mar 2024

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